Bobby Ramakant

Early and accurate TB diagnosis is the gateway

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If we are to end TB, then we have to find every person with TB and offer accurate and timely diagnosis, treatment, care and support. In other words, we have to eliminate ‘delayed or missed diagnosis’ by making “early and accurate TB diagnosis” a norm, before we can further embark on the #endTB pathway with full force. By doing so, not only people with TB will get treated early on, but we might also have a better shot at breaking the chain of infection transmission.

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tobacco use and NCDs in Asia Pacific

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The conundrum of TB, tobacco use and NCDs in Asia Pacific

Asia Pacific region had over 6.7 million new TB cases and over 883,000 people died of TB in 2021, as per the latest Global TB Report of the World Health Organization (WHO). The top 5 biggest risk factors that caused TB disease in 2021 in Asia Pacific region were undernourishment (1.2 million new cases), tobacco use (502,000 new TB cases), alcohol (486,000 new TB cases), diabetes (234,000 new TB cases), and HIV (209,000 new TB cases). Preventing TB risk factors is also TB prevention

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Are HIV programmes missing the young who need them the most?

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Are HIV programmes missing the young who need them the most?

BOBBY RAMAKANT – CNS

More than one in every four new HIV infections in Asia Pacific were in the young people in the Asia Pacific region (in 2020). More worrying is that almost all of these new HIV infections in the young people, were among the young key populations. Writing on the wall is clear: unless we scale up HIV programmes and increase programme effectiveness for the young key populations, we will fail to end AIDS by 2030.

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advocating for sexual health and rights

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Youth Changemakers at the forefront of advocating for sexual health and rights Bobby Ramakant

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endAIDS if we blindly depend on the Global North

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  • We cannot #endAIDS if we blindly depend on the Global North
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Inequity and health security

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Inequity and health security: will the poison that blinds, open our eyes too?
SHOBHA SHUKLA, BOBBY RAMAKANT - CNS

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Local leaders unitedly push for One Health approach

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Local leaders unitedly push for One Health approach. Will G20 leaders tango?

 

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Latest advancements in TB

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Latest advancements in TB science in spotlight

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Latest advancements in TB science in spotlight

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Latest advancements in TB science in spotlight

BOBBY RAMAKANT – CNS

 

Important game-changing scientific advancements in preventing and treating TB (TB or tuberculosis, is among the deadliest of infectious diseases globally), were in spotlight at the recently concluded International Conference on Retroviruses and other Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2022).

 

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Are we converting scientific breakthroughs

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Are we converting scientific breakthroughs into public health gains?

 

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